RFC 6286

"Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4", June 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6286.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 4271

Authors:

E. Chen
J. Yuan

Stream:

IETF

Source:

idr (rtg)

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Abstract

To accommodate situations where the current requirements for the BGP Identifier are not met, this document relaxes the definition of the BGP Identifier to be a 4-octet, unsigned, non-zero integer and relaxes the "uniqueness" requirement so that only Autonomous-System-wide (AS-wide) uniqueness of the BGP Identifiers is required. These revisions to the base BGP specification do not introduce any backward compatibility issues. This document updates RFC 4271. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.